Location:Demon Realm — Hall of Traitors, Kor'veth Citadel
Date/Time:1 Infernorest, 9939 AZI
Realm:Demon Realm
Ren had been putting this off.
Not consciously. Not deliberately. But the investigation had produced enough urgent work — Vaelith's detection research, the Vor'kina Kael, the blood oaths, the weight of the Vor'lumen revelation pressing against every waking hour — that descending to the Hall of Traitors to open one specific Vor'thane had been easy to defer. Necessary work first. Emotional excavation later.
Later was now.
The stairway down was the same — narrow, single file, defensible, the nullite chill deepening with every step until his breath came out as a thin ghost. Voresh descended behind him. Two demons walking into a place that held the preserved shame of their race since the beginning of recorded history.
